#makeshitmonday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #makeshitmonday, aggregated by home.social.
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I made part of a ring for a friend, and i’m happy to report that it was on display for their listening party last weekend.
Even more important check out their music!
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jaymyloni/1694034796
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#makeShitMonday, in which I finally master foundation double #crochet!
Having five projects in various states of not-done-yet was making me twitchy... So I got my act together, wove in the ends on my [beanie](https://www.mooglyblog.com/lavender-kisses-beanie/), and figured out how I wanted to finish off my [cowl](https://www.mooglyblog.com/lavender-kisses-cowl/). Hooray!!
That just leaves Cowl's Moving Hassle. I found [a written tutorial with pics of each step](https://hearthookhome.com/foundation-double-crochet-tutorial/) that somehow made foundation double crochet click for me - I'd been inserting into the wrong loop at the start of every stitch, when I first tried it! So I happily started a *fourth* attempt, and it was going swimmingly - got a few rows in, gave it to @mbroome for a size check, and it's too loose. 🙄
At least that's easy to fix! I sized down to a 7mm hook, tried again, and finally got a thumbs-up on the fit.
(For about a nanosecond, I considered frogging my cowl and re-doing it with a proper foundation double crochet... But life is too short, and it's just for me, so it gets to stay scraggly. 😇)
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@cannibal it was a quiet weekend. I removed part of a fence and made pancakes. As part of the fence project i channeled the priest from my parents’ church who would try to drive in screws with a hammer.
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It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
I am building a date calculator based on hierarchical rules, first on the code of civil procedure and then local court rules.
Show me what you got!
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@cannibal Making a set of cards. Whether I will complete them all is as yet unknown. #MakeShitMonday https://pixelfed.scot/p/fluffgar/993803111095566300
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It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
I updated the heltec 3 case, files up soon on printables.
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#makeShitMonday, in which I have a travel #crochet project...
@mbroome and I are out for a new adventure, and I needed something to keep my hands busy, so I started a new [Fortune's Shawlette](https://www.mooglyblog.com/fortunes-shawlette/) with a stash skein. Simple, portable, and it'll make a fun gift when I'm done!
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#MakeShitMonday, #Sugru edition...
I got a new pair of sport sunglasses, and the yellow rubberized part at the end of the temples catches on my hair, and when I have it up in a ponytail, that's a PIA.
I used some black Sugru (moldable silicon rubber) to mold around the end with the catchy bits. Now the temple tips slide smoothly over my hair when putting the sunglasses on or taking them off.
(I was in a rush getting it done last night, so I didn't take any pictures of the process, but here's a picture of the result.)
cc: @cannibal
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cannibal/117018545771078794
It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
I got a sling bag together for my goon team
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#makeShitMonday, in which I pivot and tally another FO!
My sister's birthday is coming up next week, so I put the problematic cowl on hold and focused on finishing the #crochet Totoro amigurumi for her...
[This pattern](https://www.deviantart.com/aphid777/art/Mini-Totoro-337092794) is pretty light on detail - basically just stitch counts for each row of each component, with no guidance on assembly. Fortunately, I had the original Totoro I made for @mbroome a couple years ago, as a guide!
I'd made all the little pieces at Convention, and the body went pretty quickly this week. Attaching the appendages isn't difficult, just tedious... I cranked up the My Neighbor Toronto soundtrack for the last bits, and that helped me stay focused. Amazingly, I even found the leftover felt and button-eyes from the first round in my disaster of a craft room, so I didn't have to go re-source them! 🎉
(Apparently I totally failed to document how I added whiskers the first time, so I re-invented that wheel with some waxed-cotton cord, and I think it worked out well...)
This one ended up just a bit smaller than the first one - it's made with the same size hook, but I used one of my nicer crochet hooks and my tension must have been tighter. Good to remember for next time - and I took copious notes on all the other fiddly bits, too. 😊
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@cannibal It was a busy week at work, so just some tomatoes from the garden and printing a figurine for a friend.The figurine’s wingspan is about 11 inches.
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It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
Got the embroidery machine functional and making some stuff for con next week.
Project panic is in full effectShow me what you got!
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#MakeShitMonday, in which I cannot catch a break.
My initial plan of making a second #crochet cowl worked, to the extent that I had enough yarn left on the hat-skein to get a good start on a second cowl for @mbroome, which I started more loosely (foundation double-crochet, rather than double-crocheting into a foundation chain) so it would fit over his bigger head.
At which point it became obvious that the Malabrigo single-skein-dye-lots gotcha was going to bite me in the ass. Because the cowl I made from the second skein was distinctly brighter - and of course a better match for the hue of the hat - than the original cowl. And nobody but me would know... But I *would* know.
So I thought, no problem, I'll just give him the cowl I made for me... But the foundation chain was too tight for him to get it on comfortably. So I thought, no problem, I'll just rip out the foundation chain and re-chain the first row with a looser approach... But after multiple laborious hours, when I finally got it re-chained, it was looser - but still not loose enough.
I had an idea for how to rip and re-do the foundation chain *again*, but as @mbroome and I were on our afternoon walk and I was bemoaning my plight, he observed that I didn't seem to be having fun anymore. Which, frankly, I'm not. So I think I'm going to cut my losses and just frog the damn thing and re-do it with the foundation double-crochet... 🤷🏻♀️
Also, everyone's a comedian -
@mbroome: "I'm sorry this is turning into such a hassle!"
Me: "It's okay, I'm just being stubborn about it."
@mbroome: "Hm. And it keeps changing shape. So I guess that makes it... Cowl's Moving Hassle!"
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@cannibal I got my first tomato of the season from the garden, and kicked off printing a friend’s D&D character. I also made square biscuits for breakfast sandwiches.
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It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
I made a sticker for summer camp and fixed a chip in the windshield.
Banana for scale with the sticker.Show me what you got!
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t's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
Working on a project to have done in time for @defcon, it's going to be close. Also 201-2 with a walking foot is a beast!
Show me what you got!
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#MakeShitMonday, in which I have planned poorly...
We're at the annual National Speleological Society convention this week, so I have *five days* of presentations to attend. Prime #crochet opportunity! And did I bring enough keep-hands-busy material? No, I did not. 🙄
I just finished a beanie and a matching cowl, and I thought they would be one skein apiece, but they're significantly less. I'd love to make another set, but I don't have a scale, so I can't weigh the consumed yarn vs the remaining yarn to decide whether to make both, or just another cowl. So that project is on hold 'til I get home...
I knew that wouldn't last me through the week, so I also threw in the yarn to make a Totoro for my sister... but I didn't bring stuffing. Or the felt and safety eyes for the head/body. Which I didn't realize until I was in the car. So I may just make the ears, arms, feet, and tail, then break the yarn on the hat and start a cowl with the hat-skein remnant, and hope I have enough yarn on the cowl-skein remnant for another hat. Who knew #crochet could be so complicated?
(What, me, overthinking this? Never.)
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It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
Shot some stuff into the sky this weekend. Yes that is a safety third sticker on my hard hat.
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#MakeShitMonday, mobile radio edition...
I finally got around to adding a mag mount antenna to my car in the last few hours before a big road trip. It's an old, unbranded¹ whip that I got as part of a mixed lot of radio gear at an estate sale last year. The integrated coax cable was long enough to go in through the back hatch, around the back seat, and up next to the driver's seat.
I had previously tested the antenna on VHF (2m) and UHF (70cm) using the main radio in my shack so I knew it worked. While on the road, I successfully used the antenna connected to my Baofeng HT to join a local weekly net in Indiana!
¹ The antenna has a label that says "Mobile Antennas & Access, Burlington, NC". I don't find any references online, so I assume they went out of business and probably never had an online presence. Has anyone heard of them?
#AmateurRadio #HamRadio #antenna
cc: @cannibal
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#makeShitMonday, in which I actually complete a project!!! 🎉
I decided to take my warping case bottom as an opportunity to learn how to add brims, and it worked out well, modulo my incomplete application of the principle. 😊 I (mostly) added mouse ears - one of them I didn't quite place properly, and it wasn't actually attached to the base. 😬 The three corners with attached ears all adhered nicely - the fourth warped just a little, but it was close enough that I decided it'd be fine once I put the screws in... 😁
And it is!! Board is installed in case, fixed IP is assigned in our DHCP server, box is relocated to a shelf in our #homelab rack, and I can ssh to it. This was all remarkably less painful than I expected!!
(Shout-out to David Cain and his "[Fix One Thing](https://snow-city-media-raptitude.kit.com/8ec669c986)" method, which I really should do a whole separate post about since it's currently rocking my damn to-do list...)
@cannibal
#DIY 3dPrinting #prusa
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It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
Ramping up for @defcon which means making stickers. Got this one finished and sent off to the printers
Show me what you got!
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#MakeShitMonday, in which I make something other than crochet, for a change! 😊
I bought a gently-used Jetson Orin Nano (thank you @Viss!) to play with self-hosted whisper, paperless-gpt, etc. There were a couple of nice cases for it on Printables, so I picked one that looked pretty solid and took a whack at it...
The bottom plate had adhesion problems late in the print, started warping, and came entirely unstuck at about 97% completion. Super frustrating! (It's amusing that Octoprint has a "so close" achievement for prints that are canceled after 95%, though - at least I got a good laugh out of that.)
Our printer is in our basement, and we were in & out of both the door to the upstairs and the door to the outside while it was printing, so I'm wondering if that affected the print. I kicked off the upper portion, stayed out of the basement for a few hours, and it came out just fine, so now I'm cargo-culting about basement airflow. 🙄
We spent the weekend up at the New River Gorge, and I forgot to start the filament dryer this morning, so I won't get to try again til tomorrow. Going to bump the bed temp up 5° and hope that fixes it... (And stay out of the basement again! 😁)
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@cannibal I present the “Poop Port 3000”, the latest in guinea pig cage cleaning tools. Coupled with a cyclonic separator it allows vacuuming guinea pig pellets without also capturing their pee pads.
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It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
Breaking in the 201-2 with a prototype project and also testing out different binding attachments.
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#MakeShitMonday, in which I frog the same #crochet project twice... 🙄
I unraveled the entire first pass at the hat, rewound the yarn onto its yarn ball so the kinks could relax, and started over with the second ball.
As usual, I was working on it in the car, listening to a podcast - which must have been more interesting than usual, because I missed a key point in the pattern and ended up making more of a doily than a hat! I was thinking it didn't look quite right, but it took me a lot longer than it should have to realize what was wrong ...
So I ended up frogging 2/3rds of my progress there, too. I guess what I've made this week is a couple of piles of squiggly yarn. 😊
Hopefully third time's the charm?
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@cannibal looking good!
I made useful things and questionable things over the weekend. The needles were for making the shade cover. The spiked thing is shredder parts for some terrible jokes.
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It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!
Too busy with work so posting early. I've been restoring an old machine and it's finally done.
Show me what you got!
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#MakeShitMonday, organization edition...
I've had a rolling cart sitting around in its box for a while. (I often have to remind myself that just having a thing isn't the useful part.)
Today, as part of my "find the floor" effort in my home office, I put the cart together and then put a bunch of random radio equipment into the drawers of the cart.
I forgot to take a before picture of the mess on the floor, so you'll just have to imagine the 12 square feet (1.1m²) of space that had boxes and bags and random radio stuff.
As I started getting all up in my head thinking about what should go in each drawer, I heard the voice of an organizational guru (@clutterbug_me) telling me to just "Do It Shitty". So I did... and in this case, done is better than perfect.
(Edited to fix a missing quotation mark.)
cc: @cannibal